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Authors: Nina Bawden
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Nina Bawden is one of the most admired and engaging writers of fiction for children and has written more than fifty books. Born in 1925, she was educated at Oxford and completed her first novel the year after gaining her degree. She is the author of such classics as
Carrie’s War
and
The Peppermint Pig
, and has won the
Guardian
Fiction Award and the Phoenix Award as well as being commended for the Carnegie Medal. Described by the
Daily Telegraph
as ‘without question one of the very best writers for children’, she divides her time between London and Nauplion in Greece.
This ebook edition first published in 2011
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